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  • U5: First thoughts on Body of Chronicles

    An overview of the brief For the first part of unit 5, we’ll be consolidating our experience of MAIP year 1 through a ‘Body of Chronicles’. It will consider The chronicles should tell the story of the cohort’s becoming as it unfolded through time, from our perspective and taking into account our positionality. The telling…

  • U3 submission

    Here is my Unit 3 submission, which is a curated conversation around the central concern of decisions. It’s been such an interesting term and I’ll blog more about my reflections and learnings after a little time has passed.  As an arts communicator and fundraiser, most of my work has been with artists whose practice is…

  • U3: First draft of submission and reflections

    U3: First draft of submission and reflections

    Following on from my idea to build an archive of decisions, for my U3 I’ve chosen to curate a single conversation about a decision. I wanted this to be a conversation, rather than an interview, and so I decided to conduct it with someone who has made a similar decision to me: the decision to…

  • U3: The (theoretical) archive of decisions – the process so far

    U3: The (theoretical) archive of decisions – the process so far

    I’ve been working on an initial idea for my unit 3 submission that I’m calling ‘The Archive of Decisions‘. I’m excited by the idea but it has already gotten away from me a bit. It far excedes the scope of this unit, so I’m starting to wonder whether it could be my unit 6 or…

  • U3: The decision to focus on decisions

    A recap of what we need to produce during unit 3: Some general notes on my interests What excites me about this term’s task is that it gives me an opportunity to think about dialogic art/performance/projects. In my practice as an arts communicator and fundraiser, I’ve worked with a community of artists who make work…

  • U3: Consideration – first thoughts on submission

    Our submission this term will comprise of a curated ‘conversation’ presented in the form of moving image. Dialogue is a key medium of intercultural practice. This term we’re thinking about the qualities of a meaningful conversation and about ethics within cultural norms – how we negotiate difference to generate meaning.  Some notes from class and…

  • W24 II: On art, empathy & responsibility – and Adolescence again

    W24 II: On art, empathy & responsibility – and Adolescence again

    Since my last blog, my mind has kept turning over some of the issues that the Çalışkan article and the Netflix series Adolescence raised for me. After discussing what Bakhtin’s views of cognition mean for ethics, Çalışkan goes on to discuss empathy and the related act of creating art. For Bakhtin since humans are such…

  • W24: On ethics, responsibility – and Adolescence 

    W24: On ethics, responsibility – and Adolescence 

    This week, ahead of Marsha’s presentation on her work, she suggested we read Ethical Aesthetics /Aesthetic Ethics: The Case of Bakhtin by Prof. Dr. Sevda Çalışkan. The reading expanded on several lines of thought that have intrigued me for a while, so I wanted to record it here. I’ve long been interested in ideas of…

  • Unit 2: What remains?

    Strongest memory from U2 – a moment from class that remains in your mind?  What readings/materials had the biggest impact on you, do you remember best and why? (Either from the course reading or that you found yourself prompted by the course) Were there any moments that ‘caught’, where you felt friction, felt personally challenged…

  • U2 submission

    Our unit 2 assignment was to create a map, diagram or poster that represents our understanding of our positionality from our own perspective and concerning the creative practices of our peers. I created a physical paper map, one that folded and unfolded revealing how my positionality shifts and changes between contexts. I presented it via…